Discontinued Operations and Held for sale businesses (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]

Disclosure of Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Table Text Block]

The Kazakhstan HPPs are reported in the Eurasia SBU reportable segment. Excluding the impairment charge, pretax income attributable to AES was as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions)	2017		2016		2017		2016
Kazakhstan Hydroelectric	$	12	$	10	$	33	$	28

Their combined pretax income (loss) attributable to AES was as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions)	2017		2016		2017		2016
Zimmer and Miami Fort	$	11	$	1	$	19	$	(10	)

Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Table Text Block]

The following table summarizes the major line items constituting the loss from discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 (in millions):

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2016			Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax
Revenue — regulated	$	213		$	632
Cost of sales	(200		)	(608		)
Asset impairment expense	—			(783		)
Other income and expense items that are not major, net	(14		)	(35		)
Pretax loss from discontinued operations	$	(1	)	$	(794	)
Income tax benefit	—			405
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax	$	(1	)	$	(389	)

The following table summarizes the operating and investing cash flows from discontinued operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 (in millions):

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016
Cash flows provided by operating activities of discontinued operations	$	68
Cash flows used in investing activities of discontinued operations	(63		)

Excluding the impairment charge and loss on sale, pretax income (loss) attributable to AES was as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions)	2017		2016			2017		2016
Kazakhstan CHPs	$	—	$	(2	)	$	13	$	5